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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4: Chapter VI, "The Robinson Affair".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Brunelda say that Karl can sleep when he first arrives at the apartment?
(a) Behind the closets.
(b) On a pile of curtains.
(c) On the settee.
(d) In the bathtub.

2. What criticism of Schubal does the captain make?
(a) Schubal is becoming too independent.
(b) Schubal is rumored to favor Slovaks and Romanians.
(c) Schubal needs to learn to speak better German.
(d) Schubal is often missing from his station.

3. What apparently affectionate gesture does Pollunder make toward Karl as they drive?
(a) Pollunder strokes Karl's arm as they talk.
(b) Pollunder ruffles Karl's hair with his hand.
(c) Pollunder repeatedly pats Karl's knee.
(d) Pollunder puts his arm around Karl.

4. Why is Karl's uniform wet when he first tries it on?
(a) From the plumbing leak it was used to stop.
(b) From the sweat of its previous wearer.
(c) From the broken dryer in the hotel laundry.
(d) From the coffee the tailor spilled.

5. How does Karl almost fall from a window at the Pollunder house?
(a) He loses his way in a dark hallway.
(b) He leans out to see a bird.
(c) He leans out to hear a train.
(d) Klara pushes him.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did one of Brunelda's former servants lose his front tooth?

2. When Robinson appears at the Occidental Hotel, what does he tell Karl he buys almost every day?

3. What surprises Delamarche and Robinson about Karl's time in New York?

4. What are the "gilded caryatids" on the door outside the office (10)?

5. Besides the letter and his trunk, what else does Pollunder give Karl?

(see the answer key)

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